Monthly Archives: May 2011

Visualizing Political Chatter

Marte Lindstrom | 03 May 2011, 9:07 pm | tags: , ,

With regards to political campaigns, the Internet has attracted the attention of politicians, researchers and the general public. During the last years the medium has developed into one of the most important – if not the most important – channel of communication during political elections, and it has even taken over the place of television as the main…


Narrative Structures in Data Visualizations to Improve Storytelling

Philip Man | 03 May 2011, 9:00 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Interactive data visualization has emerged as a complete new field within journalism. Large editorials like The New York Times, The Guardian, the Economist, the Washington Post all have special teams dedicated to data visualizations only. However, in the recent years, the storytelling potential of data visualizations has been debated.


Data Visualization and News

Magdalena Gocwin | 02 May 2011, 3:57 pm | tags:

In my last writing “Data Visualization and Political Election” I have portrayed the historical significance of data visualization analyzing political elections. Political elections has a huge historical significance which involves sociological context, cultural context or even economical context as Bernhard Rieder has pointed out in his presentation.  Nowadays the area of gathering the data has expanded from…


Why Twitter can be the Next Big Thing in Scientific Collaboration

Sander Jansma | 02 May 2011, 8:49 am | 10 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Introduction

Imagine yourself in the following situation: You, a scientist pur sang, are busy researching and analyzing A and you are having doubts about the values in the model, suspecting a technical error. Without hesitation, you compose a tweet describing the research and the problem, attach a photo made of the model, add a hashtag (e.g. #science or #labhelp) and…